An elderly man, travelling on the public bus which took us to school, had complained about a boy who had made a nuisance of himself blowing grains of rice through a pea-shooter. Since we all travelled on that bus and none of us would confess, the headmaster beat us all. The truth – as we tried to explain – was that the guilty boy went to another school. His name was Ralph. He was a maniac. His behaviour, every day, was so demented that we forbade him to sit with us. That is why he was shooting rice – he was aiming at us.
The Cane in UK Schools78
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Corporal Punisment Memories School25
At my second school, on the other hand, I got the strap on my very first day. I went...
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Miss Roberts Slipper6
My two sixes from Miss Roberts were among the most memorable of my school disciplinary career, but then come...
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Reactions to the Slipper17
If the teacher really wanted a girl to cry, he could have exploited the embarrassment factor (I prefer the...
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Corporal Punishment Comparing Impliments13
As far as your experience with the birch is concerned, it depends on whether it was a spray birch...
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Caned by the Prefect16
As a student in mixed government schools, I didn’t really see male prefects as holding much power over me...
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Old School Thoughts on Discipline8
However, here there was little evidence of CP going on. I certainly witnessed none, though I did hear of...
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Schools Religion and CP4
My experience. Sorry, one term at Grammar when some creepy vicar took us for RE (other teachers usually gave...
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Three for the Slipper2
The girls had bad attitudes and were smug and condescending to their peers, but not really anything for which...